Improvement in lubricating compounds



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

JOHN F. MENDONSA, OF SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT lN LUBRlCATING COMPOUNDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 170,58 1, dated November 30, 1875; application filed October 11, 1875.

To all whom it may concern.- railroadcar axles, as it requires no packing Be it known that I, J OHN F.1VIENDONSA, of with waste, and is powerfully refrigerant in Springfield, in the State of Illinois, have inits action upon hot boxes. Ihave given'it exvented an Improved Lubricating Compound; tensive practical trials on railroad-car axles, and I do hereby declare the following to be a and uniformly with satisfactory results.

full and correct description of the same. What I claim is- To make abarrel of my improved lubricat- The lubricant, prepared in the manner and ing-dope I take the following ingredients, in consisting of pure soft water, lye, hora-X, talthe quantities named, e. g.: Pure soft water, low, fire-clay, sulphur, black lead, and rocksiXty-eight gallons; lye, four pounds; borax, salt, substantially in the proportions named. five pounds; tallow, fifty pounds; fire-clay, ten The above specification of my said invention pounds; sulphur, five pounds; black lead, ten signed and witnessed at Springfield this 13th pounds; rock-salt, twenty pounds. These inday of September, A. D. 1875.

grellients I mix together, and boil down to OHN F. MENDONSA. forty-five gallons, when the compound is ready Witnesses: foruse. JOHN SEEDERs,

This dope is especially adapted to use on JOHN FERNANDES. 

